We spent two beautiful days in Vancouver early last week at the Unbounce CTA Conference, which was jam packed with influential speakers and interesting topics. Marketers from all over the world swarmed the Name.com booth first thing Monday morning to take advantage of the free domains, swag, and wealth of knowledge we offered about New Domains. Our Project Refresh completely rejuvenated attendees’ mindsight on how to use New Domains to their advantages.

By day, Statton Hammock is the VP, Business & Legal Affairs at Rightside and our go-to expert on all things business, legal, and registry operations policy. But in his free time, Statton has a very different hobby—mixing tracks and DJing at events as his alter ego, DJ STATN.

We’re very excited to announce that DJ STATN will be keeping the NamesCon crowds pumped up while performing at the conference’s Sunday Night Cocktail Party!

We made the long trek from Denver to Dublin for Web Summit recently and it was a fantastic time that was definitely worth the journey. We learned lesson after lesson in Dublin and saw opportunity after opportunity for not only the tech industry as a whole, but also for New Domains in particular.

On the New Domain front, we saw dozens of startups using New Domains as their primary URL for business websites. This is a stark contrast to the behavior and feelings regarding New Domains that we encountered in the past at similar events. Just a year ago we were hearing skepticism from the startup community regarding New Domains, but we’re now seeing both personal adoption and adoption from up-and-coming businesses.

To highlight some of the great usage of New Domains that we saw at Web Summit, we created a list of some of our favorites (in no particular order):

Web Summit: It’s a place where CEOs, startups, leaders, and innovators come together to network, drink beer, and discuss all things technology.

We headed to Dublin last week for this renowned event and had a blast interacting with attendees from all walks of life. But where there is work, there must be play, and there was certainly plenty of both. While it’s impossible to sum up the entirety of our trip in a single post, there were a few highlights of our Web Summit experience.

GopherCon, the largest event in the world dedicated solely to the Go programming language, has been taking place in Denver this week. Name.com Software Engineer Pat Moroney checked in with a recap of the news and highlights from the conference, as well as some of his own thoughts. Take it away, P-Mo!

We’re heading to Las Vegas on Jan. 11 -14 for NamesCon! It’s going to be four days of domain geekery, and we’d love to see you stop by the Rightside booth and give somebody from Name.com a high five. In addition to getting one of the most incredible high fives of your life, we’re going to be giving away an ultra-nerdy domainer premium domain: domain.ninja. But wait, there’s more! We’re going to bring a pile of name.com t-shirts and other swag with us, which means that we’re hooking you up with a giveaway, discounts, and making you look stylish (helping you achieve superfly-looking domainer status).

No matter how amazing Austin and South by Southwest can be, by day four you feel like you’ve been dragged through an insomnia swamp of bad choices and beer. There’s a dirtiness, a stickiness, a longing for a salad and your own bed. It is at this point, with tired eyes, raspy voices and the tension of four people sharing a tiny house for too long, that you find our team trying to get to our goal of 10,000 high fives.

Throughout the week, #HighFiveGuy has touched more people than a tent revivalist. And it would not be without exaggeration to say we’ve found religion in the streets. It’s the Cult of the High Five, and people love to participate, especially when a simple slap of the hand raises money for Austin Children’s Shelter. That’s what we’re doing, and this is just how close we are to our goal.

This is Part 3 in a series of posts about our #HighFiveGuy campaign at SXSW | Part 1 | Part 2

You may have wondered what #SXSW is all about. Well, it’s the best kind of insanity all stuffed into a few days in Texas. Now you can be a part of it without even buying plane ticket. Simply share #HighFiveGuy on your social media and we’ll add you to the tally of our 10,000 high fives. It’s fun, it’s easy and it’s important. Important? Yes. With every high five we donate to Austin Children’s Shelter.

Now, Grumpy Cat:

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